CPCRN:
A collaboration with NCI & CDC
Stephen Taplin MD, MPH
Deputy Associate Director
Program in transition
Last Updated September 2014
Division of Cancer Control & Population Sciences
(DCCPS)
• Overarching goal: generate new knowledge and ensure
that the products of cancer control research are
effectively applied in all segments of the population
• Mission: reduce risk, incidence, and deaths from cancer
as well as enhance the quality of life for cancer
survivors
http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/
Organizational Structure
NCI
Director
Director
23 Centers &
Offices
Intramural
2 Divisions
Extramural
5 Divisions
Investigator-Initiated Grants (Approximate)
75 active grants
$35 million per year
Mechanisms
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Program Project (P01) = 2.5%
Research Project (R01) = 60%
Exploratory/Developmental (R21) = 20%
Small (R03) = 15%
Academic Research Enhancement (R15) = 2.5%
Note: career awards are handled by the Center for Cancer Training, see
http://www.cancer.gov/researchandfunding/cancertraining
DCCPS Structure
• Office of the Director (Robert Croyle)
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Administrative & Financial
Cancer Survivorship
Health Disparities
Implementation Science
• Programs
– Behavioral Research (William Klein, Linda Nebling Deputy)
– Epidemiology and Genomics Research (Muin Khoury, Brit Reid
Deputy)
– Surveillance Research (Lynne Penberthy, Kathy Cronin Deputy)
– Applied Research (Ann Geiger, Acting, Stephen Taplin Deputy)
We are an evolving program addressing
cancer care delivery –
National Cancer Institute
the prevention, diagnosis, & treatment of NCI’s mission
• We have a history
– Applied Research Program
• Health Economics
• Risk factor monitoriing
• Outcomes research
• We have a future
– Health care delivery research
• Health Economics • Process research – screening, treatment, survivorship
• Outcomes research
• We are in transition – and we are listening and looking
– Intervention research
Health Services Research (HSR)
•Health Services Research at NCI is the study of multilevel
fixed and mutable factors that affect cancer care delivery
and outcomes.
•We are interested in understanding and intervening.
•Open for discussion
Cancer Care Delivery is complex set of processes
and sub-processes
Process of
care impacts
Processes of Care Across the Cancer Care Continuum
Types of Care
Efficiency
End-of-life care
Post-treatment
survivorship
Cancer or
precursor RX
Diagnosis
Detection
Screening
Symptomatic
Primary
prevention
Risk assessment
Equity
Safety
Timeliness
Patientcenteredness
Sub-process
effectiveness
Patient & population
outcomes
Patient
Risk status
Biologic outcomes
Health related quality
of life & well-being
Quality of death
Financial burden
Patient experience
Population
Mortality
Morbidity
Cost-effectiveness
Transitions in Care
Each type and transition in care offers opportunities for improvement. Within and
between types of care there are interfaces and steps which may be articulated to
identify more opportunities.
Taplin et al 2012 JNCI
We recognize that process occurs in a multilevel
context
Local Community
Community Level Resources
Medical care offerings
Population SES
Lay support networks
Private cancer organizations
Local Hospital & Cancer Services
Market
Level of competition
Managed care penetration
Percent non-profit
Specialty mix
Local Professional Norms
MD practice organizations
Use of guidelines
Practice patterns
Provider / Team
Knowledge, communication skills
Perceived barriers, norms, test
efficacy
Cultural competency
Staffing mix & turnover
Role definition
Teamwork
National
State
Local
Organization and/or
Practice Setting
Provider/Team
Family & Social
Supports
Individual
Patient
Individual Patient
Biological factors
Socio-demographics
Insurance coverage
Risk status
Co-morbidities
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs
Decision-making preferences
Psychological reaction/coping
Improved Quality of Cancer Care
Improved Cancer-Related Health Outcomes
National
Policy – Affordable Care Act
Structure – Financial, Political
Culture - Expectations
State
Policy - Medicaid
Structure - Provider
Culture
Mix
advocacy groups
attitude/expectations
Organization / Practice
Setting
Leadership
Organizational structure, policies &
incentives
Delivery system design
Clinical decision support
Clinical information systems
Patient education & navigation
Family / Social Supports
Family dynamics
Friends, network support
National Cancer Institute
The Multilevel context of care is intriguing
and challenging….an example
• 30% of population served by FQHCs is screened for
CRC compared to close to 60% of general population
• FQHCs know it and they are being committed to
increasing it
– Roundtable 80 by 18
– CEO NACHC
• CRC screening in FQHCs is a multilevel challenge
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National support
Regional support (health networks, primary care assoc)
System/clinic support
Individual understanding & motivation
National Cancer Institute
CPCRN
• A joint effort with CDC
– Vicki Benard/Stephen Taplin
– ….and many others including David, April, Cynthia
• Priorities:
– Implementation processes for
• Colorectal cancer screening implementation
• HPV vaccination
- Multilevel perspective
- How individuals, groups, organizations & communities act and
interact to adopt efficacious cancer control
- Turning our view and thoughts 90 degrees to the implementation
National Cancer Institute
There are networks and resources for
research you can use
• People
– Leadership
– Program directors
• Primary data
• Secondary data
• Networks
Role of Branch Staff
• Pre-application advice on program priorities, funding
mechanisms, study section, and aims
• Review summary statement and provide advice on next
steps
• Required NCI scientific oversight of award (including review
of annual progress report)
Identify staff appropriate for your idea(s) through mentors, peers, published
literature, meetings, web pages, etc.
Please email first (https://ned.nih.gov/search/)
Primary Data: National Health Interview Survey
• Leading source of population-based, self-reported health
status and health care utilization data in the U.S.
• Cross-sectional in-person survey of a nationally
representative sample of ~ 87,500 persons
• NHIS Cancer Control Supplement (CCS)
– Roughly 20 minute battery covering many topics
– New topics for 2015 include lung cancer screening, new
tobacco products, and genetic counseling
• Data are publicly available
• > 200 publications since 2000
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/nhis/
Primary Data: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) collects data
from families and individuals on specific health services
used and how frequently, plus the cost of these services
and how they are paid for
• Experiences with Cancer Survivorship Supplement
• Oversamples survivors
• Adds questions such as access to care and changes in patient or
caregiver work because of cancer
• Data are publicly available
• ~ 10 publications since 2012
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/meps/
Primary Data: Provider Survey Initiative
• Collect nationally representative data to examine
cancer control knowledge, attitudes, recommendations,
policies, and practices from provider perspective
– Primary Care Physicians’ Recommendations and
Practices for Breast, Cervical, Colorectal, and Lung
Cancer Screening (2006–2007)
– Physicians’ Perspectives on the Care of Cancer
Survivors (2009)
• Planned survey on physicians’ knowledge and use of
genomic testing and targeted therapies for breast,
colon, lung, and prostate cancer
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/physician_surveys/
Primary Data: Patient-Centered Assessment Resource
• Challenges in use of patient-reported outcomes
– Not standardized across ages, diseases, languages,
populations, etc.
– 4 non-comparable state-of-the-science systems
developed with NIH support (PROMIS®, NIH Toolbox,
Neuro-QOL, ASCQ-Me)
– Concerns about sustainability
• Recently awarded Cooperative Agreement
– Goals: Integration, Dissemination, Sustainability
Primary Data: PRO-CTCAE
• Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
(CTCAE) used to document AE for inclusion in analyses
of treatment efficacy and tolerability
– 1 in 8 of AE are symptoms amenable to use of patientreport outcomes (PRO) measures
– 126 extensively evaluated questions in a usability-tested
system with web-based or interactive voice response
• Next steps include analysis of a validation study in a
large cohort of cancer patients and feasibility testing in
two cooperative group treatment trials
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/pro-ctcae/
Primary Data: Patterns of Care (POC)
• Fulfills 1987 congressional mandate
– Evaluate dissemination of therapy, biomarkers, etc.
– Compare actual practice to guideline recommendations
• Expanded data abstraction and physician verification of
data not collected or incompletely collected in SEER
– 3 to 5 cancer sites annually since 1995
– ~1,125 patients per site
• Restricted data access
• ~50 publications in past 10 years
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/poc/
Secondary Data: SEER-Medicare
• Clinical, demographic, and death
information on 1.6 million cancer
cases from SEER, diagnosed
250
beginning in 1973
200
• All health claims from Medicare, 150
New Requests
beginning in 1991
Manuscripts
100
reviewed
Papers
• 5% random sample of Medicare 50
Published
enrollees without cancer
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• Updated linkage available in
December 2014
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/
– Diagnoses through 2011
– Services through 2012
seermedicare/
Secondary Data: Cancer Cost Projections
• Linked SEER-Medicare data used to estimate net cost
of care by cancer site, gender, and phase of care
– Initial = First year after diagnosis
– Continuing = Between initial and last
– Last = Final year of life
• Widely used
• Update available in spring 2015
http://costprojections.cancer.gov/
Secondary Data: SEER-MHOS
• SEER data as described earlier
• Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) provides
information about the health-related quality of life for
enrollees sampled from 1998 to 2011
– Includes individuals with and without cancer
• ~15 peer-reviewed publications
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/seer-mhos/
Research Networks (Cooperative Agreements)
• Cancer Research Network (CRN) http://crn.cancer.gov
– Goal: support and facilitate cancer research based on non-profit
integrated health care delivery settings
– 9 healthcare systems plus 6 affiliate systems
– Scholar Program and Pilot Study Funds (open)
• Population-based Research Optimizing Screening through
Personalized Regimens (PROSPR)
http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/networks/prospr
– Goal: support research to better understand how to improve the
screening process (recruitment, screening, diagnosis, referral for
treatment) for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer
– Network of 7 research centers and a Statistical Coordinating
Center
PROSPR
• Began in September 2011
• Multi-center, collaborative research program
• Funded through NCI’s Division of Cancer Control
and Population Sciences
• Overall purpose is to promote coordinated,
multidisciplinary research to evaluate and improve
the cancer screening process:
• Breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening
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PROSPR’s Objectives
1. Study the comparative effectiveness of existing and emerging
screening processes in community practice;
2. Study the balance of benefits and harms across recognized
cancer risk profiles
3. Conduct preliminary studies to inform future research to
optimize screening processes and outcomes;
4. Share data and findings with potential collaborators through
publications, web portals, and interaction with a consulting
panel in order to foster related research.
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Composition of PROSPR Research Centers
PROSPR Research Center
High-Risk Groups Included
System
University of New Mexico
(Cervical)*
Hispanic
Native American
Low-income rural
State-wide registry
Group Health Cooperative
(Colorectal)
Asian American
Medicaid
Integrated health care delivery system
Parkland-UT Southwestern
(Colorectal)
African American
Hispanic
Low-income urban
Under- or uninsured
Safety-net clinical provider network
Kaiser Permanente Northern and
Southern California
(Colorectal)
African American
Hispanic
Asian American
Integrated health care delivery system
University of Pennsylvania
(Breast)
African American
Low-income urban
Integrated health care delivery system
Dartmouth Institute and Brigham and
Women’s Hospital
(Breast)
African American
Hispanic
Medicaid
Low-income urban
Primary care clinical networks
University of Vermont
(Breast)
Rural
State-wide registry
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Funded PROSPR Research Centers
Research Networks: NCI Community Oncology
Research Program Cancer Care Delivery Research
• NCORP is a single network replacing NCI Community Cancer
Centers and Clinical Oncology Programs
– Goal: To bring cancer clinical trials and cancer care delivery
research to people in their own communities
• CCDR
– Emphasizes specialty providers and provider systems in
communities often characterized by more care fragmentation
– Integrates delivery research with NCI community-based clinical
trials research to improve accrual or rapid dissemination of trial
findings
– Includes a focus on access and disparities in care beyond
organized health care systems
http://ncorp.cancer.gov/
Administrative supplements for NCI cancer centers: collaborations
with state and local HPV coalitions and programs
Revisit, Revitalize, and Reposition DCCPS
• Identify most important scientific questions and cancer
control objectives
• Maximize ability to facilitate significant achievements
• Support creation of evidence needed for decisionmaking
• Engage extramural community
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